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St-UDIO: the unlicked department of investigative operations.

For 'Unlicked', Anne Stansfield has roamed gP Studios and reflected on the uses of the studio and how inspiration is to be found there.

Stansfield is a conceptual artist with a broad practice that makes use of a wide range of materials and methods. She prizes the qualities of simplicity, chance and humour and collaborates with the site in which she is working. She instinctively works across mediums to mirror how people consume culture today; she says, ‘It would be odd for someone to try and make sense of the world by just looking at paintings, so it seems logical to me to experiment with disciplines that communicate the idea most favourably.’ Consequently, she uses trial and error process in her making to collaborate with materials, entice innovation and to allow a space for not-knowing. When making films and animations, their conclusions are intentionally left open-ended - to encourage the viewer to be an ally in the work.

Opening night: Friday 1st November 6-8pm, refreshments served and all welcome.

The exhibition will also be open from 2nd - 4th November from 11am until 5pm.

EARTH SONG

"Earth Song is a loose collection of out of context moments and abstracted feelings all smothered in pixelation and compression with an original musical score and sound design by me (Jake Williams). It is inspired by the fact that through digital screens I have been, in a hyperreal sense, all over the Earth and seen the worst and the best of it. And through this technological window, one is simultaneously isolated to a maleable internal reality and connected to the whole planet’s stream of information through a self feeding, self walling algorithm. And with the dominance of new short form content like TikTok and Reels, we are pulled through these momentary portals away from reality, which then breed in the mind to create a larger reality untethered to the purely physical.

I like to think of this as a new form of aesthetic language to explore and play with, as I feel scrolling through the video shorts algorithm is highly revealing as to the phsyicic condition of both the individual’s specific algorithm and the entire planet. A digital unconscious. That is the inspiration for this hodgepodge video piece, a surreal exploration of the lines between the digital and the real in a collage-style series of memories and moments strung together like a dream."

Opening evening this Friday 27th September from 5pm - all welcome (18+ content advisory)

Jake Williams is an artist and recent University of Lincoln graduate of BA Fine Art.

RE-IMAGE

Nick Simpson is in residency at the General Practice project space over the next few weeks, both creating and showcasing his work. During this time he will be developing new, playful, immersive projections that interact with the space, while also drawing from his past work. The exhibition, opening on Friday 16th August, will present light paintings, sculptures and prints developed over the last three years.

The show aims to offer an immersive experience by incorporating sculptural elements such as plants, roots, mid-century glassware and strategically placed mirrors. Simpson's project reimagines landscapes through video, photographs, field recordings and other experimental DIY techniques, including homemade camera obscuras and macro lenses. These inventive methods delve deeply into the exploration of environment and place.

Save the date: Re-Image, Friday 16th August 2024, Exhibition opening from 6pm, all welcome.